“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“She's grateful for what she was born with. She should be. It's an awesome face, a perfect face, an ethereal face. The kind people write songs and poems and suicide notes about. It's that exotic kind of beauty that men in romance novels obsess over, even if they have no idea who you are, because they must possess you. That kind of beauty.”
― The Sea of Tranquility
― The Sea of Tranquility
“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
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